University of Chicago Press, 2009. As new! Hard bound, first edition, xvi + Pp349. Tight and unmarked - fine in near fine dust jacket. 630 grams. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books and also offer local curbside pick-up. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba. University of Chicago Press, 2009 ISBN 0226144283 9780226144283 [CA]

The Seminars of Jacques Derrida. Fourth Printing. Translation by Geoffrey Bennington of "Seminaire: la bête et le souverain, Volume I, 2001-2002" (Editions Galilee, 2008). Edited by Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet and Ginette Michaud. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in quarter dark brown cloth and white paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvi/349 pages."When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With "The Beast and the Sovereign," Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English."The Beast and the Sovereign," Volume 1 launches the series with Derrida's exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001–2002, Derrida continues his deconstruction of the traditional determinations of the human. The beast and the sovereign are connected, he contends, because neither animals nor kings are subject to the law—the sovereign stands above it, while the beast falls outside the law from below. He then traces this association through an astonishing array of texts, including La Fontaine's fable "The Wolf and the Lamb," Hobbes's biblical sea monster in "Leviathan," D. H. Lawrence's poem "Snake," ...

ISBN10: 0226144283, ISBN13: 9780226144283, [publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago] Hardcover A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. 466 pages.
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